Print Screen function

[Bascom King]

In trying to use the print screen key to copy a full
screen DOS graphics program to the clipboard, it does not
work on a Win XP Home computer that I use. This function
does work perfectly on several WIN98SE machines I use.
The particular DOS program that I want to get screen
images from only works in full screen mode. When I try to
use the print screen function on other DOS graphic
programs that will run in a window, the print screen
function works on these OK.

Would surely appreciate a definitive answer on this - like
this simply does not work in XP or it does, and one has to
do a, b, c, etc.

Thanks for the hoped for illumination on this!

[DennisLazo.com]

the print screen function on winxp would, i think, be the same with win98.

pressing the print screen key would capture the whole screen and place that
image in memory.
pressing alt-print screen would capture the current window and then place
the image in memory.

after capturing the image (using either of the methods mentioned above), you
need an imaging program which could place the image captured into a file.
examples would be, ms word, or the built in paint program of winxp, and/or
wordpad. other third party software could be corel photopaint, corel draw,
adobe photo shop, and other image editing software.

once you have opened the software where you want the captured image to
appear, just click on the paste button, or using the menu, edit > paste.
you would then be able to see the captured image on screen (and even edit
it).

the choice is now yours on what you want to do with the document. you can
either print it immediately and discared the file, or save the file, which
would allow you to print the document again in the future.

all of the above is opposed to the print screen function when dos was still
alive and kicking, wherein the image goes straight to the printer.

i hope i was able to help.

--
regards,
dennis
http://dennislazo.com

"Bascom King" > wrote in message
...
| In trying to use the print screen key to copy a full
| screen DOS graphics program to the clipboard, it does not
| work on a Win XP Home computer that I use. This function
| does work perfectly on several WIN98SE machines I use.
| The particular DOS program that I want to get screen
| images from only works in full screen mode. When I try to
| use the print screen function on other DOS graphic
| programs that will run in a window, the print screen
| function works on these OK.
|
| Would surely appreciate a definitive answer on this - like
| this simply does not work in XP or it does, and one has to
| do a, b, c, etc.
|
| Thanks for the hoped for illumination on this!
|

[Rob Schneider]

Bascom King wrote:

> In trying to use the print screen key to copy a full
> screen DOS graphics program to the clipboard, it does not
> work on a Win XP Home computer that I use. This function
> does work perfectly on several WIN98SE machines I use.
> The particular DOS program that I want to get screen
> images from only works in full screen mode. When I try to
> use the print screen function on other DOS graphic
> programs that will run in a window, the print screen
> function works on these OK.
>
> Would surely appreciate a definitive answer on this - like
> this simply does not work in XP or it does, and one has to
> do a, b, c, etc.
>
> Thanks for the hoped for illumination on this!
>

Your question made me curious since I had never tried screen shot in
full screen mode. I ALT-ENTERed on a Command prompt, then pressed
PrtScn button, then pasted result into Word Pad ... no problem. Came in
as text.

Whereas when PrtScn pressed when not full screen, it was a graphics
image and it pasted as graphics into Word Pad, and also into Paint.

Unless there is a flaw (which I can't think what it would be) it should
work on your computer. Please try it again.

You may also want to adjust the font sizes to enable the DOS program to
display differently so that you get view.

[Rob Schneider]

It does work. In Windows, when you press PrtSc button, it copies entire
desktop to clipboard. Press Alt-PrtSc buttons it copies active window
to clipboard. Paste the image from clipboard into an application which
can accept a graphics image (Wordpad, Paint, Word, etc.).

Hope this is useful to you. Let us know.

rms




Lew wrote:
> Can anyone tell my why the Print Screen function does not work in Windows XP?
>
> I'm using Roxio to burn music CDs. The application does not provide a way to print a list of songs that's on the CD, so I put the new CD in the tray, openied Roxio and tried to use Print Screen to print the listing that appeared. Print Screen would not
work. I also tried "Ctrl P" and it did not work.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks,
>
> Lew
>

[Ken Blake, MVP]

In ,
Lew > typed:

> Can anyone tell my why the Print Screen function does not work
in
> Windows XP?


Back in the days of DOS, the PrintScrn key used to print the
screen. But in all versions of Windows, this works differently,
and the name of the key is now an anachronism.

To use the key, press it to capture an image of the entire
screen, or press alt-PrintScrn to capture an image of the active
window. Either one captures the image to the Windows clipboard.
Once it's in the clipboard you can paste (Ctrl-V) it into any
application that supports graphics (Windows Paint, other graphics
programs, even your favorite word processor). You can edit or add
to the image as you wish, then print it.

This ability to manipulate the image in a program before printing
it is an improvement over the original DOS method of just
printing it. But if you'd like that old facility back, there are
several third-party freeware/shareware programs that can do this,
such as PrintKey2000
(http://www.sharewarejunkies.com/00zwd2/printkey2000.htm).

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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[Byte]

After you click Print screen, open Paint, click Edit and paste
You'll see it.